TOURISM

The 6 most popular sandy beaches in Finland

Foreigner.fi 10/Jun/2019

Summer is here to stay. If you want to enjoy sunbathing and beach life, you don't have to take a plane and travel very far away. There are many beautiful sandy beaches in Finland, in some…

NEWS

168 people caught driving under influence of alcohol or drugs last weekend

Foreigner.fi 10/Jun/2019

The Finnish police carried out last weekend an intensive campaign to monitor drunk driving nationwide. Driving controls intensified at all police stations between Thursday 6 June til Sunday 9 June.…

NEWS

Production of gin in the EU increased by 62% in 10 years

Foreigner.fi 10/Jun/2019

In the year 2017, 116 million pure alcohol litres of gin and geneva worth €729 million were produced by the European Union (EU) Member States, according to the latest data published by Eurostat.…

TOURISM

4 top class festivals to experience Tampere this month

Foreigner.fi 07/Jun/2019

With the arrival of good weather, Tampere becomes even more welcoming and its inhabitants go out to the street to celebrate that light has taken over the world. Throughout the summer, the city of…

WORK & STUDY

Dismantling a myth: immigrants do not work for themselves more than locals

Foreigner.fi 07/Jun/2019

About 30.2 million people in the EU aged 20-64 were self-employed at the end of 2018. Of these, around 26.7 million were native-born, while 3.5 million were born in a foreign country. Among the…

NEWS

The police will intensively monitor drunk driving this weekend

Foreigner.fi 06/Jun/2019

With the arrival of good weather, more and more people take their cars in the weekends and move temporarily away from their usual places of residence. If you are also going to do it next weekend,…

NEWS

The new Government of Finland appointed

Foreigner.fi 06/Jun/2019

On Thursday 6 June, the President of the Republic appointed Finland’s 75th Government. At the same time, the President of the Republic released the ministers of Juha Sipilä’s Government from their…

LIFESTYLE

Reported domestic violence increases in Finland

Foreigner.fi 06/Jun/2019

During the year 2018 there were 9,900 domestic violence and intimate partner violence offences reported to the Finnish authorities, which is 3.6% more than in the previous year, according to…

MOVING TO FINLAND

Migri rectifies: "The right to work has not expired for any asylum seeker with the legal change"

Foreigner.fi 06/Jun/2019

Last month the Finnish Immigration Service announced in its customer's bulletin that, due to the amendments to the Aliens Act entering into force on 1 June 2019, asylum seekers' right to work would…

LIFESTYLE

King of the forest, guilty of 1,800 car accidents per year

Foreigner.fi 05/Jun/2019

Elks have always been part of the lives of Finns. The king of the Finnish forest came to the North among the first mammals about 9,000 years ago after the Ice Age and has been since then an…

WORK & STUDY

Kela monitors the income of unemployment benefit receivers

Foreigner.fi 05/Jun/2019

The Finnish Social Security institution (Kela) reminded today its customers that "regularly checks the income of those receiving unemployment benefits". To have a source of income does not…

WORK & STUDY

The EU has 1.39 million unemployed less than a year ago

Foreigner.fi 05/Jun/2019

The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.6% in April 2019, down from 7.7% in March 2019 and from 8.4% in April 2018. This is the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since…